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| 8:40 | Opening Remarks |
| 8:50 | Session 1: Full Papers
An Empirical Study in Source Word Deletion for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Chi-Ho Li, Hailei Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming Zhou |
| 9:10 | Rich Source-Side Context for Statistical Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith |
| 9:30 | Discriminative Word Alignment via Alignment Matrix Modeling
Jan Niehues, Stephan Vogel |
| 9:50 | Regularization and Search for Minimum Error Rate Training
Daniel Cer, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher Manning |
| 10:10 | Learning Performance of a Machine Translation System: a Statistical and Computational Analysis
Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini |
| 10:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:00 | Session 2: Full Papers
Using Syntax to Improve Word Alignment Precision for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Victoria Fossum, Kevin Knight, Steven Abney |
| 11:20 | Using Shallow Syntax Information to Improve Word Alignment and Reordering for SMT
Josep M. Crego, Nizar Habash |
| 11:40 | Improved Tree-to-String Transducer for Machine Translation
Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea |
| 12:00 | Invited Talk
Daniel Marcu |
| 12:40 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Session 3: Shared Task
Further Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
Chris Callison-Burch, Cameron Fordyce, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Josh Schroeder |
| 14:30 | Limsi’s Statistical Translation Systems for WMT08
Daniel Déchelotte, Gilles Adda, Alexandre Allauzen, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Olivier Galibert, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Philippe Langlais, François Yvon |
| 14:40 | The MetaMorpho Translation System
Attila Novák, László Tihanyi, Gábor Prószéky |
| 14:50 | Meteor, M-BLEU and M-TER: Evaluation Metrics for High-Correlation with Human Rankings of Machine Translation Output
Abhaya Agarwal, Alon Lavie |
| 15:00 | Booster Session: Shared Task |
| Shared Translaton Task |
| First Steps towards a General Purpose French/English Statistical Machine Translation System
Holger Schwenk, Jean-Baptiste Fouet, Jean Senellart |
| The University of Washington Machine Translation System for ACL WMT 2008
Amittai Axelrod, Mei Yang, Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff |
| The TALP-UPC Ngram-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for ACL-WMT 2008
Maxim Khalilov, Adolfo Hernández H., Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, Carlos A. Henríquez Q., Patrik Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa, José B. Mariño, Rafael E. Banchs |
| European Language Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers: The CUED MT System for the 2008 ACL Workshop on SMT
Graeme Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, Jamie Brunning, William Byrne |
| Effects of Morphological Analysis in Translation between German and English
Sara Stymne, Maria Holmqvist, Lars Ahrenberg |
| Towards better Machine Translation Quality for the German-English Language Pairs
Philipp Koehn, Abhishek Arun, Hieu Hoang |
| Phrase-Based and Deep Syntactic English-to-Czech Statistical Machine Translation
Ondrej Bojar, Jan Hajic |
| Improving English-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation: Experiments in Domain Adaptation, Sentence Paraphrasing, Tokenization, and Recasing
Preslav Nakov |
| Improving Word Alignment with Language Model Based Confidence Scores
Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao, Stephan Vogel |
| Kernel Regression Framework for Machine Translation: UCL System Description for WMT 2008 Shared Translation Task
Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor |
| Using Syntactic Coupling Features for Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations (WMT-08 Shared Translation Task)
Vassilina Nikoulina, Marc Dymetman |
| Statistical Transfer Systems for French-English and German-English Machine Translation
Greg Hanneman, Edmund Huber, Abhaya Agarwal, Vamshi Ambati, Alok Parlikar, Erik Peterson, Alon Lavie |
| TectoMT: Highly Modular MT System with Tectogrammatics Used as Transfer Layer
Zdenek Zabokrtsky, Jan Ptacek, Petr Pajas |
| MaTrEx: The DCU MT System for WMT 2008
John Tinsley, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska, Andy Way |
| Can we Relearn an RBMT System?
Loïc Dugast, Jean Senellart, Philipp Koehn |
| Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System
Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen |
| Incremental Hypothesis Alignment for Building Confusion Networks with Application to Machine Translation System Combination
Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz |
| Shared Evaluation Task |
| The Role of Pseudo References in MT Evaluation
Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa |
| Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation
Kevin Duh |
| A Smorgasbord of Features for Automatic MT Evaluation
Jesus Gimenez, Lluis Marquez |
| 15:30 | Poster Session
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| 16:40 | Session 4: Full Papers
Fast, Easy, and Cheap: Construction of Statistical Machine Translation Models with MapReduce
Chris Dyer, Aaron Cordova, Alex Mont, Jimmy Lin |
| 17:00 | Dynamic Model Interpolation for Statistical Machine Translation
Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita |
| 17:20 | Improved Statistical Machine Translation by Multiple Chinese Word Segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang, Keiji Yasuda, Eiichiro Sumita |
| 17:40 | Optimizing Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Performance
Pi-Chuan Chang, Michel Galley, Christopher Manning |